Voicethread due on Monday - embed into the wiki before class on Monday
Chapter 3 Vocab & Questions Sheet handed out - Due on Friday, March 5th.
Chapter 3 Test - Friday, March 5th.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Started Napoleonic Era Newspaper group project -
- each student must contribute at least 1 article and take on one role in their group
- Groups should use Publisher to create their newspapers
- Newspapers are due on Monday, March 29th.
- Students took notes about the life of Napoleon and interesting information that could fit into their newspaper projects.
- Use Microsoft Publisher to make your newspaper.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Back to the lab. Articles should be getting finished.
- Make sure emails are shared so groups can communicate and share files on the weekend.
- Editing can start and lay outs should start on the weekend.
Computer time on Monday to finish putting newspapers together.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Computer lab - last day to work on newspapers. Due tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Newspapers are due today.
1.) Newspaper Group Project Evaluations: Personal and Peer
2.) Chapter 4 Vocabulary & Question Sheet - handed out (I will post tomorrow)
- Due next Friday
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
1.) Napoleon - powerpoint notes (his rule, law codes)
2.) Josephine mindmap - in your notebooks
3.) Worktime - Chapter 4 questions
Thursday, April 1, 2010
1.) Worktime - chapter 4 vocab & questions
2.) Napoleon: Man of Destiny video - part 3; campaigns to conquer Europe (Austerlitz)
3.) Exit pass - How was war difference in the Napoleonic Era than we see today in the news?
Happy Easter!!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
1.) Worktime - finish Chapter 4 vocab & questions
2.) when finished - Activity Sheet on Topographical Maps on p. 106 in textbook
3.) Napoleon & Europe notes - vs Britain, Continental System, ruling Europe
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
1.) Rise of Nationalism notes - meaning of nationalism, problems in Spain, Russian Campaign
2.) Napoleon: Man of Destiny video - end of marriage to Josephine, marriage to Maria Louisa, Russain Campaign, Collapse in France
3.) Worktime - finish chap 4 questions, togographical map, Napoleon timeline
reminder:
- Chapter 4 questions due Friday
- Chapter 4 test on Friday
Thursday, April 8, 2010
1.) Napoleonic Era Newpapers - Group Evaluation & Share
2.) Napoleon notes - Abdication & Exile
- finish notes from the textbook: Louis XVIII's rule, Battle of Waterloo, Congress of Vienna
Study for your test tomorrow:
matching, multiple choice, and one paragraph question
Friday, April 9, 2010
1.) Chapter 4 test - Napoleon
2.) reminder: marks cut off is on Monday for term 3. Hand late assignments by Monday.
(marks were posted on Wednesday and progress reports were handed out to students not doing well)
Monday, April 10, 2010
1.) Battlefield Detectives: Massacre at Waterloo
Tuesday, April 11 & Wednesday, April 12, 2010
1.) Oliver Twist (2005) film
2.) Entry Pass (Wednesday):
1.) What were the conditions of the workhouse Oliver is sent to at the beginning of the film?
2.) Describe the conditions of London from the scenes in the film.
3.) Exit Pass (Wednesday):
1.) Describe the following characters in the film:
- Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sykes, Nancy, Oliver
4.) Catch up Day for students not completed work from term 3 - in TLC room.
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Industrial Revolution Unit
1.) Make chapter5 outline in your notebooks
2.) Read Introduction section
3.) Why Britain? notes - powerpoint
4.) Worst Jobs of the Industrial Era video
- Entry Pass (in notebook): What job from the 'real world' would you not like to have?
- notes from video: List the jobs and describe them
Friday, April 16th, 2010
1.) Finish Worst Jobs video
- Exit Pass: Which job from the video would you least like to have and why?
2.) Chapter 5 Vocab & Question Sheet
- worktime.
1.) p.163 in textbook - Geographical Regions of North America Map
2.) Introduce Geography of North America project
- criteria for each group's region: topography, climate, vegetation, impact of climate change, how are cities combating it, Aboriginal groups in the region & history of life
- medium: Google Docs
Computer Lab time to work on projects.
- Due on Friday
- Present by Monday (last day to present)
Friday, May 7, 2010
1.) Presentations - Geography of North American Group projects
2.) Worktime - finish:
- Political Map of Canada
- Physical Map of North America
- Aboriginal Peoples of Canada Chart
1.) Presentations
2.) Green Cities video - CBC newsclip
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
1.) Finish Maps & chart from last week - many not handed in and late
2.) last 2 presentations
3.) Oil Sands video - CBC news in review
4.) CHapter 7 Outline - in notebooks
5.) New Aboriginal Groups Chart
1.) Last presentation - Physical Regions of North America
2.) Group evaluations for Physical Regions of NA project
Chapter 7 - Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
3.) Video: Canada: A People's History Vol #1 - When the World Began
- Follow the video and fill out the answers on the video sheet
4.) worktime: finish Political Map of Canada, Physical Regions of NA Map, 2 Aboriginal Peoples charts
- Due tomorrow
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Workday:
1.) finish work that is due today (see above)
2.) Chapter 8 Outline in notebooks
3.) Chapter 8 vocab & question sheet
Friday, May 14, 2010
Guns, Germs, & Steel documentary - Part 2: Conquest (Pizzaro in Peru)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
1.) Review topics from yesterday (Beginning of Exploration - Vikings, John Cabot) with Canada: A Peoples History videos
- Into the Unknown
- New Lands
2.) Notes - French & English Explorers (Verrazano, Cabot, Cartier, Hudson)
3.) Canada: A Peoples History video - The Land That God Gave To Cain, Hochelaga
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
1.) Introduction for Explorers Projects: choose one of the 2 projects handed out
Computer lab time to finish Goanimate or Explorer Cards Project
- Due Thursday, May 27 at the beginning of class for the explorer cards or embed the Goanimate Project in the Explorers Project Page in the wiki.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Hand in Explorer Projects - Due today
1.) New France & Champlain notes
2.) Canada: A People's History videos about Champlain and exploration
3.) Jig Saw assignment - People of New France
- Jesuits, Habitants, Coureurs de Bois, Women
1.) Quebec's 400th Anniversary
2.) Finish Jig Saw - meet with other groups to fill out the chart from yesterday
3.) Canada: A People's History videos - Champlain
Monday, May 31, 2010
1.) New France: Royal Province notes
2.) Mercantilism notes
3.) Life as a Pioneer - Working Over Time video
2.) Seven Years' War notes
3.) Canada: A People's History video - Battle for a Continent
- Episode Beginning & The Governor and the General - American colonies, Ben Franklin, French-Indian alliance, Acadia, Vaudreuil, Montcalm, Loiusbourg campaign
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
1.) Worktime - Chapter 8 assignment, Eastern NA map
2.) Finish Seven Years' War notes
3.) Canada: A People's History video - Battle for a Continent
- A Deterrring and Dreadful Vengeance, Divided Councils, The Plains of Abraham
Thusday, June 3, 2010
1.) Worktime - Eastern NA map, chapter 8 vocab & questions
- due tomorrow
Map of battles during Seven Years' War:
in your map include:
- 2 colours for British and French movements and battle sites
- arrow from Halifax to Louisbourg
- arrow from Louisbourg to Quebec
- Ft Oswego
- Ft William Henry
- arrow from NY to Ft William Henry
- arrow from Montreal to Ft Oswego
- British lines to Montreal
- Stars and dates on forts and settlements mentioned above
2.) Finish Seven Years War notes
- Chapter 8 Quiz tomorrow
Friday, June 4, 2010
1.) Hand in Chapter 8 vocab & questions
2.) Chapter 8 Quiz
3.) In-class marking of quiz
Monday, June 7, 2010
1.) Current Events - Haiti U17 girls soccer team video (from E:60)
2.) Worktime - Chapter 9 vocab & Question sheet
1.) Canada: A People's History videos -
- HBC, NWC, and their competition in the fur trade
2.) worktime: chapter 9 vocab & questions - due Friday
reminder: Chapter 9 Quiz friday
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
1.) worktime: chapter 9 vocab & questions
2.) HBC & NWC posts into the Northwest up to the 1820s - maps in chapter 9
- their competition is similar to Starbucks at every corner to run other coffee shops out of business
- also, fast food restaurants
3.) key explorers to the west: Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson
4.) Canada: A People's History videos -
- Alexander Mackenzie's route to the Pacific
- David Thompson's surveying of the Northwest & race to the mouth of the Columbia with American Astor's Pacific Fur
Company.
1.) Chapter 10 - After the Fall of Quebec notes
2.) worktime - Chapter 10 Vocab & Questions
reminders:
- if you missed the Chapter 9 Quiz on Friday - write in LOL room @ lunchtime
- Chapter 10 vocab & questions due Friday
- Midterm #2 (chapters 6-10) on Friday, June 18th from 8:30 am to 10:30 am
- notebooks will be handed in on Friday for me to mark
- Textbooks will be handed in on Friday before test
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
1.) worktime - chapter 10 vocab & questions
2.) American Revolution notes
3.) American Revolution timeline
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
last day of regular classes!!
1.) Locker Clean-Out
2.) Finish Chapter 10 - BNA, War of 1812 notes
3.) Chapter 6-10 Review for Second Midterm
Midterm:
8:30 am to 10:30 am Friday, June 18, 2010
Reminder:
- Don't be Late
- Bring a pen & pencil
- Hand in your notebook - for me to mark
- Hand in your textbook - for me to hand back to library
February 1st, 2010
1.) Course Outline
2.) Guns, Germs & Steel (part 1 of documentary) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnmT-Y_rGQ
Homework:
- Bring a notebook for Tuesday
February 24th, 2010
French Cities Tourist Brochure project using voicethread.com
Here's the project sheet and marking rubric:
Here's how your voicethread will be marked:
This project is due on Monday, March 1st.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Started Napoleonic Era Newspaper group project -
- each student must contribute at least 1 article and take on one role in their group
- Groups should use Publisher to create their newspapers
- Newspapers are due on Monday, March 29th.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Here are some links to help your Napoleonic Era searches for your newspaper project:
Napoleon Series
Napoleon Guide
Napoleonic Period Collection
Here's the link for a Napoleon Game online:
PBS Napoleon
Thursday, March 25, 2010
No lab time.
Watch first part of video Napoleon Man of Destiny
- Students took notes about the life of Napoleon and interesting information that could fit into their newspaper projects.
- Use Microsoft Publisher to make your newspaper.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Back to the lab. Articles should be getting finished.
- Make sure emails are shared so groups can communicate and share files on the weekend.
- Editing can start and lay outs should start on the weekend.
Computer time on Monday to finish putting newspapers together.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Computer lab - last day to work on newspapers. Due tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Newspapers are due today.
1.) Newspaper Group Project Evaluations: Personal and Peer
2.) Chapter 4 Vocabulary & Question Sheet - handed out (I will post tomorrow)
- Due next Friday
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
1.) Napoleon - powerpoint notes (his rule, law codes)
2.) Josephine mindmap - in your notebooks
3.) Worktime - Chapter 4 questions
Thursday, April 1, 2010
1.) Worktime - chapter 4 vocab & questions
2.) Napoleon: Man of Destiny video - part 3; campaigns to conquer Europe (Austerlitz)
3.) Exit pass - How was war difference in the Napoleonic Era than we see today in the news?
Happy Easter!!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
1.) Worktime - finish Chapter 4 vocab & questions
2.) when finished - Activity Sheet on Topographical Maps on p. 106 in textbook
3.) Napoleon & Europe notes - vs Britain, Continental System, ruling Europe
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
1.) Rise of Nationalism notes - meaning of nationalism, problems in Spain, Russian Campaign
2.) Napoleon: Man of Destiny video - end of marriage to Josephine, marriage to Maria Louisa, Russain Campaign, Collapse in France
3.) Worktime - finish chap 4 questions, togographical map, Napoleon timeline
reminder:
- Chapter 4 questions due Friday- Chapter 4 test on Friday
Thursday, April 8, 2010
1.) Napoleonic Era Newpapers - Group Evaluation & Share
2.) Napoleon notes - Abdication & Exile
- finish notes from the textbook: Louis XVIII's rule, Battle of Waterloo, Congress of Vienna
Study for your test tomorrow:
matching, multiple choice, and one paragraph questionFriday, April 9, 2010
1.) Chapter 4 test - Napoleon
2.) reminder: marks cut off is on Monday for term 3. Hand late assignments by Monday.
(marks were posted on Wednesday and progress reports were handed out to students not doing well)
Monday, April 10, 2010
1.) Battlefield Detectives: Massacre at Waterloo
Tuesday, April 11 & Wednesday, April 12, 2010
1.) Oliver Twist (2005) film
2.) Entry Pass (Wednesday):
1.) What were the conditions of the workhouse Oliver is sent to at the beginning of the film?
2.) Describe the conditions of London from the scenes in the film.
3.) Exit Pass (Wednesday):
1.) Describe the following characters in the film:
- Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sykes, Nancy, Oliver
4.) Catch up Day for students not completed work from term 3 - in TLC room.
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Industrial Revolution Unit
1.) Make chapter5 outline in your notebooks
2.) Read Introduction section
3.) Why Britain? notes - powerpoint
4.) Worst Jobs of the Industrial Era video
- Entry Pass (in notebook): What job from the 'real world' would you not like to have?
- notes from video: List the jobs and describe them
Friday, April 16th, 2010
1.) Finish Worst Jobs video- Exit Pass: Which job from the video would you least like to have and why?
2.) Chapter 5 Vocab & Question Sheet
- worktime.
Monday, April 19, 2010
1.) Industrialization - mind map in notebooks from p.130-134
- What are the essential ingredients of industrilization?
2.) Agricultural Revolution - notes
3.) worktime - chapter 5 vocab & questions
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
1.) Reminders:
- Band students leave on band trip on Thursday - Chapter 5 vocab & questions due Wednesday, April 21
- Chapter 5 quiz - Tuesday
2.) Inventions chart - cut and paste pictures into notebook
3.) worktime - chapter 5 vocab & questions
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
1.) finish Chapter 5 notes - transportation, factory system, society & culture
2.) worktime - chapter 5 vocab & questions - band students must be finished today before leaving on trip
3.) Earth Day clean up around neighbourhood
Thursday, April 22, 2010
1.) Worst Jobs of the City Video - Industrial era jobs
- Make a list of all the jobs with descriptions about each.
Monday, April 26, 2010
1.) Introduce Industrial Revolution Storyboard Project
2.) Computer Lab - rm 111 - worktime
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 27 & 28, 2010
Computer Lab time to work on projects
Thursday, April 29, 2010
1.) Present several Industrial Revolution Storyboards
2.) Finish Chapter 5 Vocab & Questions - due on Friday
3.) Work on Midterm Exam Review chart - 3 columns: What I know, What I don't know, What I know now
- Midterm Exam (chapters 1 to 5) - Monday
Friday, April 30, 2010
1.) The Great Stink video - Sewage problems in London during & after the Industrial Revolution
- youtube clip
Monday, May 3, 2010
1.) Midterm Exam - Chapters 1 - 52.) Canadian Political Map
- Use Handout and Atlas - finish for homework
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
1.) p.163 in textbook - Geographical Regions of North America Map
2.) Introduce Geography of North America project
- criteria for each group's region: topography, climate, vegetation, impact of climate change, how are cities combating it, Aboriginal groups in the region & history of life
- medium: Google Docs
Wednesday & Thursday, May 5 & 6, 2010
Computer Lab time to work on projects.
- Due on Friday
- Present by Monday (last day to present)
Friday, May 7, 2010
1.) Presentations - Geography of North American Group projects
2.) Worktime - finish:
- Political Map of Canada
- Physical Map of North America
- Aboriginal Peoples of Canada Chart
Monday, May 10, 2010
1.) Presentations
2.) Green Cities video - CBC newsclip
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
1.) Finish Maps & chart from last week - many not handed in and late
2.) last 2 presentations
3.) Oil Sands video - CBC news in review
4.) CHapter 7 Outline - in notebooks
5.) New Aboriginal Groups Chart
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
1.) Last presentation - Physical Regions of North America
2.) Group evaluations for Physical Regions of NA project
Chapter 7 - Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
3.) Video: Canada: A People's History Vol #1 - When the World Began
- Follow the video and fill out the answers on the video sheet
4.) worktime: finish Political Map of Canada, Physical Regions of NA Map, 2 Aboriginal Peoples charts
- Due tomorrow
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Workday:
1.) finish work that is due today (see above)
2.) Chapter 8 Outline in notebooks
3.) Chapter 8 vocab & question sheet
Friday, May 14, 2010
Guns, Germs, & Steel documentary - Part 2: Conquest (Pizzaro in Peru)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
1.) Review topics from yesterday (Beginning of Exploration - Vikings, John Cabot) with Canada: A Peoples History videos
- Into the Unknown
- New Lands
2.) Notes - French & English Explorers (Verrazano, Cabot, Cartier, Hudson)
3.) Canada: A Peoples History video - The Land That God Gave To Cain, Hochelaga
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
1.) Introduction for Explorers Projects: choose one of the 2 projects handed out
2.) Computer Lab time to start projects
Thursday, May 20th to Wednesday, May 26 2010
Computer lab time to finish Goanimate or Explorer Cards Project
- Due Thursday, May 27 at the beginning of class for the explorer cards or embed the Goanimate Project in the Explorers Project Page in the wiki.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Hand in Explorer Projects - Due today
1.) New France & Champlain notes
2.) Canada: A People's History videos about Champlain and exploration
3.) Jig Saw assignment - People of New France
- Jesuits, Habitants, Coureurs de Bois, Women
Chapter 8 assignment: Due next Friday - June 4th
Friday, May 28, 2010
1.) Quebec's 400th Anniversary
2.) Finish Jig Saw - meet with other groups to fill out the chart from yesterday
3.) Canada: A People's History videos - Champlain
Monday, May 31, 2010
1.) New France: Royal Province notes
2.) Mercantilism notes
3.) Life as a Pioneer - Working Over Time video
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
1.) Eastern North America Map
2.) Seven Years' War notes
3.) Canada: A People's History video - Battle for a Continent
- Episode Beginning & The Governor and the General - American colonies, Ben Franklin, French-Indian alliance, Acadia, Vaudreuil, Montcalm, Loiusbourg campaign
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
1.) Worktime - Chapter 8 assignment, Eastern NA map
2.) Finish Seven Years' War notes
3.) Canada: A People's History video - Battle for a Continent
- A Deterrring and Dreadful Vengeance, Divided Councils, The Plains of Abraham
Thusday, June 3, 2010
1.) Worktime - Eastern NA map, chapter 8 vocab & questions
- due tomorrow
Map of battles during Seven Years' War:
in your map include:- 2 colours for British and French movements and battle sites
- arrow from Halifax to Louisbourg
- arrow from Louisbourg to Quebec
- Ft Oswego
- Ft William Henry
- arrow from NY to Ft William Henry
- arrow from Montreal to Ft Oswego
- British lines to Montreal
- Stars and dates on forts and settlements mentioned above
2.) Finish Seven Years War notes
- Chapter 8 Quiz tomorrow
Friday, June 4, 2010
1.) Hand in Chapter 8 vocab & questions
2.) Chapter 8 Quiz
3.) In-class marking of quiz
Monday, June 7, 2010
1.) Current Events - Haiti U17 girls soccer team video (from E:60)
2.) Worktime - Chapter 9 vocab & Question sheet
3.) HBC notes - here's the powerpoint, finish the notes we started in your notebooks:
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
1.) Canada: A People's History videos -
- HBC, NWC, and their competition in the fur trade
2.) worktime: chapter 9 vocab & questions - due Friday
reminder: Chapter 9 Quiz friday
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
1.) worktime: chapter 9 vocab & questions
2.) HBC & NWC posts into the Northwest up to the 1820s - maps in chapter 9
- their competition is similar to Starbucks at every corner to run other coffee shops out of business
- also, fast food restaurants
3.) key explorers to the west: Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson
4.) Canada: A People's History videos -
- Alexander Mackenzie's route to the Pacific
- David Thompson's surveying of the Northwest & race to the mouth of the Columbia with American Astor's Pacific Fur
Company.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
(60 min classes)Workday:
- finish Chapter 9 vocab & questions
- Study for Chapter 9 quiz tomorrow
- start Chapter 10 vocab & questions:
Friday, June 11, 2010
1.) Chapter 9 quiz
2.) Homework check - Chapter 9 vocab & questions
3.) Chapter 10 vocab & questions
Monday, June 14, 2010
1.) Chapter 10 - After the Fall of Quebec notes
2.) worktime - Chapter 10 Vocab & Questions
reminders:
- if you missed the Chapter 9 Quiz on Friday - write in LOL room @ lunchtime
- Chapter 10 vocab & questions due Friday
- Midterm #2 (chapters 6-10) on Friday, June 18th from 8:30 am to 10:30 am
- notebooks will be handed in on Friday for me to mark
- Textbooks will be handed in on Friday before test
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
1.) worktime - chapter 10 vocab & questions
2.) American Revolution notes
3.) American Revolution timeline
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
last day of regular classes!!1.) Locker Clean-Out
2.) Finish Chapter 10 - BNA, War of 1812 notes
3.) Chapter 6-10 Review for Second Midterm
Midterm:
8:30 am to 10:30 am Friday, June 18, 2010Reminder:
- Don't be Late- Bring a pen & pencil
- Hand in your notebook - for me to mark
- Hand in your textbook - for me to hand back to library